Ultrasound Training Solutions Faculty

Suean Pascoe - Director

(B.App.Sc. (MRT), GradDip MedUS, AMS, Cert IV workplace training)

Suean Pascoe is an accredited medical sonographer with over 12 years experience. Suean has been an independent teacher and locum sonographer since 2003. In that time she has worked throughout Australia and New Zealand in a number of public and private hospital settings, her flexible approach and deep knowledge of a range of modalities have seen her in great demand.

Having trained at Brisbane's QUT through the Prince Charles Hospital, Suean has held a number of senior roles in both Australia and New Zealand. In particular, Suean was a clinical supervisor with MHDI (now Symbion Health), and was also instrumental in the development of a new ultrasound business – CMI – in Christchurch, New Zealand. Suean has also worked at Christchurch and Christchurch Women's Hospitals.

Oriana Tolo - Director

(B.App.Sc (Med Rad), GradDip MedUS, AMS, Cat 1 workplace training)

Oriana Tolo is an accredited medical sonographer with over 14 years experience. She began her training through The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and while a trainee won Best Proffered Paper at the Australian Sonographers Association Annual Conference (1996). Oriana developed her teaching skills early in her career while at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, training radiology registrars and other trainee sonographers.

Oriana moved into private practice working at MHDI (now Symbion Health) as a senior sonographer where she mastered a wide range of ultrasound modalities and continued to provide in-house sonographer training. Currently working at a leading musculoskeletal imaging specialist centre, Oriana enjoys a 75% musculoskeletal workload with the remaining 25% covering all other modalities. Oriana specialises in paediatric and musculoskeletal ultrasound.

Dr. Adam Bystrzycki - Consultant emergency physician

(MBBS, FACEM)

Dr. Bystrzycki is an emergency physician at The Alfred Emergency and Trauma Centre, Melbourne, where he is involved in the training of emergency registrars. He is also the supervisor of intern training for The Alfred. Dr. Bystrzycki was elected Fellow to the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine (ACEM) in 2001.

Dr. Bystrzycki is a sessional lecturer at Latrobe University in critical care nursing. He has also had a number of papers published and is involved in a number of long term clinical studies. Dr. Bystrzycki is currently enrolled in a post-graduate diploma of peri-operative and critical care echocardiography.

Dr. Bystrzycki participates in the following courses:

Introductory Ultrasound for Emergency Medicine

Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound

Start-up Ultrasound Workshop in FAST

Dr. Andrew Hilton - Consultant critical care physician

(MBBS, FANZCA, FJICM)

Dr. Andrew Hilton is a Senior Intensivist and Supervisor of Intensive Care Training at the Alfred Hospital Intensive Care Unit in Melbourne. Andrew has over 16 years experience in perioperative and critical care echocardiography, presenting at many meetings and workshops, both in Australia and the United States.

Andrew has published widely and is the 2008 manuscript reviewer for the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography. Andrew is the 2008 critical care member for the Certificate of Clinician Performed Ultrasound (CCPU) Board for the Australasian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (ASUM) and the Joint Faculty for Intensive Care Medicine (JFICM) representative on the Intensive Care Ultrasound Committee, 2007-2008.

Dr. Hilton participates in the following course:

Ultrasound for Intesive Care

Dr Paddy Moore - Consultant gynaecologist and obstetrician

(BA, MB, ChB, FRANZCOG)

Trained in New Zealand, Scotland and Melbourne, Dr. Moore currently works across a number of Melbourne facilities: the Mercy Hospital for Women, Austin Health, and The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne

Dr. Moore has a a particular interest in the areas of sexual health of young women and reproductive health, and has a number of refereed journal articles to her name.

Over the past four years Dr. Moore has established and runs an early pregnancy assessment clinic at the Mercy Hospital, within which ultrasound plays an integral part.

Dr. Moore participates in the following course:

Ultrasound for Pregnancy Assessment

Dr. Elizabeth Prentice - Consultant anaesthetist

(MBBS, FANZCA)

Dr. Prentice is a full time staff anaesthetist at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. Dr. Prentice was elected Fellow to the Australian New Zealand College of Anaesthetists in 2004. Prior to this she finished her training with fellowships in Vancouver, Canada and Starship Children’s Hospital Auckland, New Zealand. Dr Prentice trained at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, where she pursued her interest in regional anaesthesia. In Auckland she learned to use ultrasound for regional anaesthesia and vascular access. She continued this interest on her return to a full time staff position at St Vincent’s, and attended several ultrasound training workshops. She accepted a full time staff position at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne at the end of 2006, and continues to integrate regular use of the ultrasound into her daily practice for central lines, PICC lines and regional blocks.

She has subsequently gone on to teach ultrasound to anaesthetists at St. Vincent’s and The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) workshops, has lectured at the Society for Paediatric Anaesthetists in Australia and New Zealand on ultrasound guided vascular access, and is involved in teaching anaesthetic registrars to use ultrasound at The Royal Children’s Hospital. She is also an APLS (Acute Paediatric Life Support) instructor. She has published a book “Ultrasound Guided Regional Anaesthesia for Anaesthetists", and is currently writing a chapter for an international paediatric textbook on vascular access, including ultrasound guided techniques.

Dr. Prentice participates in the following course:

Introductory Ultrasound for Anaesthetists

Dr. Michael Sewell - Consultant general practitioner

(MBBS, DipRACOG, FRACGP, MFM)

Dr. Sewell is a full-time rural and remote GP locum, working across most states and territories of Australia.

Graduating from Monash University in 1978, he embarked on a career as a rural GP in Gippsland Victoria, until 1996. In recent years he has worked as an emergency department doctor at a number of Melbourne hospitals; he is also an Emergency Life Support course instructor.

In 1998 Michael completed a masters degree in family medicine. He holds a position of senior lecturer at Monash University’s Department of General Practice, and has a continuing involvement in both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

Dr. Sewell participates in the following course:

Emergency Ultrasound for Rural and Remote Medicine

Dr. Jack Spencer - Consultant emergency physician

(MBBS, FACEM, MRACMA)

Dr. Spencer is a senior emergency physician at The Alfred Emergency and Trauma Centre, Melbourne. Dr. Spencer was elected Fellow to the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine in 1999. Dr. Spencer has been a sessional lecturer for Monash University, and has co-convened a number of emergency department physician ultrasound workshops in conjunction with Monash University.

Dr. Spencer has been a member of the The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) Ultrasound Subcommittee from its inception to 2007, is a member of ASUM and has demonstrated at Australasian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (ASUM) conferences. Dr. Spencer has lectured domestically and internationally on FAST and emergency department ultrasound and is currently involved in a pilot study on the use of pre-hospital ultrasound in trauma by Air MICA officers.

Dr. Spencer participates in the following courses:

Introductory Ultrasound for Emergency Medicine

Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound

Start-up Ultrasound Workshop in FAST

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